Not pulling a default profile pic image

Hi @allana,

That’s very strange indeed as that image comes from WordPress and you’re getting a 404 error for it. Are you by chance using any plugin or custom code to do with Gravatars or Speed up site by removing X piece of code?

If you’d like to be able to set your own please use the below code in your functions.php file

define ( 'BP_AVATAR_DEFAULT', $img_url );
define ( 'BP_AVATAR_DEFAULT_THUMB', $img_url );

An example with a URL is

define ( 'BP_AVATAR_DEFAULT', 'http://example.com/default-avatar.jpg' );
define ( 'BP_AVATAR_DEFAULT_THUMB', 'http://example.com/default-avatar-thumb.jpg' );

You can read more on this here: https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/guides/customizing-buddypress-avatars/

Thanks,

Kieran.

Hi,

My apologies I should have said as much. These changes should be added to your child theme’s functions.php

Is this where you added the code?

Kieran.

Hi,

By chance was the plugin Jetpack?

Could you try the code in bp-custom.php and see if that works? You can see how to create this file here https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/bp-custom-php/

Kieran.

Hi,

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. Sorry to hear it isn’t working for you, please remove the snippet I sent you from functions.php and bp-custom.php and try the following in your child theme’s functions.php

//Custom avatar for no avatar user
function myavatar_add_default_avatar( $url ){
return 'http://www.mydomain.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/avatarDefault.png';
}
add_filter( 'bp_core_mysteryman_src', 'myavatar_add_default_avatar' );

Please replace the path to the image with your own. If that doesn’t work please follow this post on WPMUdev https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/how-to-add-a-custom-default-avatar-for-buddypress-members-and-groups/

Thanks,

Kieran